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Customs seizes 156 trailer loads of rice, 656,414 litres of fuel

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The Matters Press by The Matters Press
January 6, 2023
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 156 trailer loads of rice as well as 656,414 litres of petrol, worth N14 billion.

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The seizures were made in 2022 by the Federal Operations Unit Zone A, of the Nigeria Customs Service.

The acting Controller of the Unit, Mr Hussein Ejibunu, said in Lagos on Thursday that the Unit lost four officers to smuggling fight and arrested 176 smuggling suspects last year.

The unit, he said, secured seven convictions while cases involving 14 suspects were at various stages of prosecution.

Ejibunu added that seven suspects are in detention: while two suspects were handed over to NDLEA, and one suspect handed over to the Nigerian Police respectively, while 151 are on administrative bail.

He said the Unit recovered shortfalls in duty payments and achieved a total collection of N878,344 million as revenue for the government in 2022.

The unit boss said that the collected revenue would have been lost but for the intervention of FOU ‘A’, checking to be sure correct duties were paid into government coffers.

However, he said among the items seized last year were foreign parboiled rice, vehicles, drugs, textiles, petroleum products and other items in the import and export prohibition lists.

Aside protecting the national economy, he said some of the seizures achieved protection of citizens’ health because dangerous, expired and harmful products were prevented from being smuggled into the country.

“In terms of volume, rice topped the list of our seizures. We seized 93,102 X 50kg which amounts to about 156 trailer loads of rice. Even our newly constructed warehouse had an overflow with seized rice,” he said.

According to him, a total number of 108 automobiles comprising of trucks, tankers, cars and motorcycles were seized either as smuggled items or means of conveyance of smuggled items.

“Illicit drugs seized within the year under review are, 7,354 kg and 4,975 tablets of Cannabis sativa, 233 cartons X 225 milligrams, and 82 packs X 225 milligrams of Tramadol.

It is pertinent to remind us that these hard drugs fuel crime and insecurity. For petroleum products, this Unit seized 656,414 liters of premium motor spirit (PMS); that is, about 20 tanker loads of fuel from economic saboteurs who seek to impoverish the majority of our country people by taking out petrol subsidized for citizens’ benefit to be sold in other countries.

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